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Holy Water Sprinkler

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A military club set with spikes. So called facetiously because it makes the blood to flow as water sprinkled by an aspergillum.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Holy Orders
Holy Places
Holy Thursday
Holy Saturday
Holy Wars
Holy Water
Holy Week
Holy Writ
Holy Maid of Kent (The)
Holy of Holies (The)
Holy Water Sprinkler
Holywell Street (London)
Holystone
Home
Home, Sweet Home
Homer
Homer a Cure for the Ague
Homer in a Nutshell
Homer Sometimes Nods
Homer’s Critics
Homeric Verse